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Thursday, 5 September 2013

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

I can't believe it's September already. September is my favourite month of the year as we head into autumn but more importantly it's my birthday month! I absolutely love birthdays, it was always a big celebration in my family growing up and that tradition has continued. It turns out that it's birthday week this week at work so I had to make something extra special (3 birthdays in 3 consecutive days). Here's a snippet of the conversation at work which gave me my inspiration.

Colleague : Ros, what cake are we having tomorrow?Me: Cake? Well I wasn't planning on baking anything but what would you like?Colleague : Oh the brownies were really good. Pause. Actually that peanut butter cake you made was amazing....now I really want peanut butter.Me: Ok I'll think of something.Colleague : It's J's birthday tomorrow and E's birthday the day after.Me: And mine the day after that!

So I decided to make these peanut butter and chocolate cupcakes - some baked in ice cream cones and others decorated to look like a giant ice cream cone. I also got a chance to use my silicone spoon mould to make some chocolate spoons. I wanted to make chocolate biscuits but ran out of time. These were so popular I made them again the next day so in total I've baked over 50 cupcakes in 2 days and there's 2 left that I know of!

I used my trusted peanut butter cupcake recipe which has a lovely light texture and is full of peanut butter flavour. The first day I made a peanut butter cream cheese icing as I didn't have any double cream and the second day I made peanut butter frosting with double cream. Personally I prefer the cream cheese version as it helps balance the sweetness of the cake. I also made a batch of chocolate buttercream frosting which went well with the peanut butter/chocolate cupcakes.

I'm also entering this to a new blogging challenge called Treat Petite. It's hosted by Kat from The Baking Explorer and Stuart from Cakeyboi and the idea is to submit any sweet treat that's individually portioned and not a big cake. Luckily cupcakes are acceptable, otherwise I'll enter my chocolate spoons! The theme this month is 'No Theme' so anything goes.

ready to bake my cupcakes

I bought 2 different ice cream cones. The cornets for decoration and the cup cones for baking.

my chocolate batter was quite liquid compared to the peanut butter one but they turned out well after baking

I used some foil to support the ice cream cones.

start with some chocolate dough

add some peanut butter dough

peanut butter cream cheese frosting

ready to decorate. I coloured some of the peanut butter icing to resemble ice cream flavours

I used some icing to stick the cone to the tray and to stick the cupcakes to the tray

pipe different colours on each cupcake and decorate with sprinkles

silicone spoon mould

fill with melted chocolate and leave to set in the fridge

ice cream cone cupcakes

The cones remain crisp after baking but will go a little soft after leaving it overnight with frosting on top

These are fab Ros! I love the styling too with the 'collapsed' cone and chocolate spoons - brilliant! Thank you so much for entering them into Treat Petite! Please can I ask that you add the Treat Petite logo to the post? Thank you!

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Hi! My name is Ros and I've discovered a new passion in life - baking! It's really fun trying new recipes and perfecting old ones. I love experimenting with different flavours and textures and am slowly getting better at cake decorating.
As of Feb 2016, I've started a new blog all about spiralizing called atwirlywhirly blog. This is completely different to my baking blog and I hope it will also appeal to my readers.